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Hodding Carter III

In January 2006 Hodding Carter III became University Professor of Leadership and Public Policy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He had earlier been a reporter, managing editor and associate publisher of the Delta Democrat-Times in Greenville, Mississippi, State Department spokesman in the Jimmy Carter administration, and president of the Knight Foundation.

Source: UNC Libraries: Hodding Carter Papers, 1908-2008 (finding aid)

1935–2023 as the Library of Congress records it · On the Friends’ Local Authors roster as Hodding Carter → · Library of Congress authority record ↗

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Hodding Carter III, 2006
Hodding Carter III, 2006

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Carolina professor of leadership and public policy Hodding Carter III delivers 2007 mid-year commencement address.

Carter, Hodding · 2007

Hodding Carter III, described in the title as Carolina professor of leadership and public policy, gave the 2007 mid-year commencement address at Chapel Hill. Four pages, originally issued electronically. Topics include baccalaureate addresses at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the commencement of 2007 and change. In UNC's North Carolina Collection.

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Hodding Carter papers, 1950s-2000s.

Carter, Hodding · 1954

Papers of Hodding Carter spanning the 1950s to the 2000s, part of the Southern Historical Collection at UNC, collection 5314. Carter worked as a newspaper editor and later joined the faculty at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Subjects include African American civil rights, civil rights movements, community organization, Lyndon B. Johnson, and the Knight Foundation, with 1964 singled out as a date.

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  1. Hodding Carter III joins UNC as University Professor of Leadership and Public Policy Carter, a former Mississippi newspaper editor, State Department spokesman and Knight Foundation president, joined the UNC faculty in January 2006. He later chaired the UNC Press Development Council.Search the index · UNC Libraries: Hodding Carter Papers, 1908-2008 (finding aid)

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Picture: Hodding Carter III, 2006. CC BY-SA 3.0. Photograph by Mnpeter at English Wikipedia; Transferred from en.wikipedia to Commons by TarHippo using CommonsHelper. Taken by Mnpeter at en.wikipedia; via Wikimedia Commons

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